I do these schedules alternatively three times a week. For example in one week I would have Monday (Schedule 1), Wednesday (Schedule 2), Friday (Schedule 1), then next week on Monday (Schedule 2), Wednesday (Schedule 1), Friday (Schedule 2) and so on.

The problem I am getting is that I am losing strenght. For example before I started this workout program I was able to do about 30 push-ups, but now I can hardly do 15. Even today I tried to do some and after only 5 I felt my muscles starting to tremble and losing power and strength.

Why has this effect appeared is it something that usually happens when you only begin a workout programme (and then gradually disappears) or am I doing something wrong ? I must mention that before each exercise I have about 20 minutes of stretching and that the whole program usually lasts about 1h and 30 minutes.

Assuming your healthy, you may be overtraining. Also, make sure your getting enough of the right kinds of foods including lots of protien, and take a multi vitamin if you don't already. You can also consider protien supplements like whey.

By the way, the reason I said "Assuming your healthy" is that something like mono or lymes disease can really wipe you out. I had mono durring my sophomore year of college and initially got a false negative when I got tested. As a result, I trained on and off for weeks when I should have been resting.

Yes I am pretty healthy although I'm not sure if I do actually get enough proteins and vitamins. I am doing 15 reps as I also want to do a bit of workout for the flexibility and tone of my muscles and not only for strenght and power (I think I read this somewhere, is it true that 15 reps vs 12 reps has this kind of effect?)

1 gram of protien per pound of bodyweight is generally accepted as a good minimum.

Meanwhile, toneing is really just building muscle while losing bodyfat. You can add a little muscle or a lot, depending on your goals, but either way you don't need to limit yourself to high reps.

Finally flexability is best developed through various streching exercises. As long as you stretch regularly, you should be able to achieve/maintain a high level of flexibility reguardless of how strong/musclular you become.

That 15 vs 12 is absolutely untrue. "Toning" is simply making that muscle stronger, along with losing any surrounding fat, to make it more visible. It can be done with almost any rep range.Stay here on the site and go to the weight training section. Then look up the articles "Toning" and "Fat Loss Myths" from the menu on the right hand margin .
As to your program, you're doing 3 sets each of 5 different eercises for the chest alone. Way too much. Then go and do a marathon on the rest of our bodyparts. The body grows (and in your case-tones) when it is at rest after a workout. My advice, keep your split, it's fine, but limit your exercises to2-3 per group, 2-3 sets with a basic entry level rep schem, being 8-12 or 15. You can always use the exercises you left out in your first session of Sched 1 the next time you are up for a sched 1
By 8-12 I mean the weight has to be heavy enough so that you can get 8 reps, but not 12 or 15 (the end of this really doesn't matter that much), and you work toward that goal. Once you reach it, you put weight on the bar and start over with 8 reps.

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